How Do I Get the Test?

When Should I Get the Test?

Breast Cancer Index may be helpful whenever you have questions about how long you will need to continue anti-estrogen therapy, or whenever you and your doctor are making a decision about whether to extend or end therapy after 5 years. This decision may occur at different time points depending on when you were diagnosed.

Existing tissue from your original tumor is sufficient for Breast Cancer Index. Which means that no additional biopsy is required; all your doctor has to do is order Breast Cancer Index and wait for the results!

Breast Cancer Index is a one-time test that can provide information to help you and your doctor create a teatment plan.

A simple 3-step process is all that is required for BCI:

1. Ask your doctor about ordering Breast Cancer Index

2. Your archived tumor tissue is sent to the lab at Biotheranostics, Inc.

Breast Cancer Index Intended Uses and Limitations

The Breast Cancer Index (BCI) Risk of Recurrence & Extended Endocrine Benefit Test is intended for use in patients diagnosed with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+), lymph node-negative (LN-) or lymph node positive (LN+; with 1-3 positive nodes) early-stage, invasive breast cancer, who are distant recurrence-free. BCI provides: 1) a quantitative assessment of the likelihood of both late (post-5 years) and overall (0-10 year) distant recurrence following an initial 5 years of endocrine therapy (LN- patients) or 5 years of endocrine therapy plus adjuvant chemotherapy (LN+ patients), and 2) prediction of likelihood of benefit from extended (>5 year) endocrine therapy. BCI results are adjunctive to the ordering physician’s workup; treatment decisions require correlation with all other clinical findings.

This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Biotheranostics, Inc. lt has not been cleared or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This test is used for clinical purposes. lt should not be regarded as investigational or for research. How this information is used to guide patient care is the responsibility of the physician. Biotheranostics is certified under the Clinical Laboratory lmprovement Amendments of 1988 to perform high complexity clinical laboratory testing.